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It
was March 1912, and a man named John Lane had purchased a
box plant in Altavista, Virginia. His son Ed Lane, twenty-one
at the time and with little manufacturing experience, was
encouraged by his father to try his hand at starting a chest
factory in the newly acquired plant. Since the Lanes didn't
know how successful their new venture was going to be, they
didn't want to put their name on it, so they incorporated
the little company as the Standard Red Cedar Chest Company,
with John Lane as President and Ed Lane as Vice President
and General Manager. From cedar chests, Lane expanded to occasional
tables in 1951, casegoods in 1956, and accent pieces in 1965.
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